It only makes sense in the horizontal axis: both Twitter and Mastodon are microblogs, while Reddit and Lemmy are link aggregator forums. The column view is ... cryptic.
You can already see how Meta will also use imagery to establish its centre-position in the Fediverse with its symbol for the Fediverse (it has a centre):
Yeah, I’m no graphic designer but the fediverse logo looks like a nightmare to render at small sizes, which is what designers are looking for in a logo, typically - something that is easy to recognize, tells something about the product, and scales well at all sizes, from favicon to building sized ad. I like that it conveys its own meaning really well, but it’s also extremely busy. So many crossing lines in such a small space just looks like a garbled mess at small sizes. Take this image and scale it down to 16x16px, you can see what I mean.
Most problems of the current Fediverse is because of how the Internet was build.
Current Internet has no social identity format, no open micropayment standard, no encryption by default so apps must reinvent their own, metadata leakages, namespaces like IP addresses and domains having centralized control, firewalls, NATs and other roadblocks disallowing most devices to host stuff...
Half of the Fediverse is hosted on Hetzner and the second half mostly on other big providers. User IDs are controlled by server admins. Even Nostr is just a band aid with it's relays doing something Internet should be able to do - send data from device to device.
True. So much Fediverse on them is a problem, but there is a reason why this is.
Really cheap, easy to scale, fast UI, no trackers, perfect IPv6 support, great CLI. And they are not a big tech, just a big hosting provider, nothing that could be against user freedom.
So long as people who care about where their instance is hosted and don't like the big hosting providers can easily find services hosted elsewhere, I don't think it matters too much. But perhaps you can go ahead and start working on plans to some day decentralize web hosting in general and I'm sure lots of people will join in once the worst of the problems at the application layer are solved.
Others already said it but I‘m gonna say it again for good measure:
Only in theory does an integration of meta and other billion dollar businesses make sense. Its neither technically possible, nor is it safe.
Its not likely to end up in anything except meta profiting from our posts and us being force fed their toxic, ad ridden dumpster fire of a social media serivice.
Every couple days someone seems to post something that is essentially shilling for billionaire back social media in the fediverse and I don't understand it. If you all love Meta and BlueSky so much, surely you would want to protect them and keep them as they are? Instead of boring us with this bullshit, why not post there?
And as for the conversation about how Meta's logo is more recognisable and scalable, have a word with yourself. If Meta were as good citizens as you're painting them to be, why would they start out by trying to change things that are established and recognisable?
Why'd mastodon, lemmy, pixelfed, and friends disappear in the last frame? They'll remain distinguishable even after fedi takes over the universe. It's the others that will be obsolete.
I don't think that this will ever really be the case. Even if ActivityPub became public standard, there would always be other protocolls and different extensions/versions of ActivityPub. And that's good, because only then can ActivityPub continue to develop, if we have an abstract idea to compare it to. And that's the Fediverse for me.
Why is reddit better than youtube? That graphic makes no sense, I can stream and download youtube, but reddit blocks anyone using a VPN and even forbids Lemmy links.